All Uses for Rotten Flesh in Minecraft Listed

It’s easy to look at the Rotten Flesh in your inventory and think that disgusting pile of meat is a waste of an inventory slot. But it’s not! There’s a handful of things you can do with it, which makes having it not weird, but actually practical. Here’s a list of all uses for Rotten Flesh in Minecraft.

All Uses for Rotten Flesh in Minecraft Listed

So you’ve slapped around a few zombies and looted the meat from their undead body. That’s not weird at all, and now you’ve got rotten flesh in your inventory. But before you toss it into a pit of lava, you might want to know if it has some practical use.

And it does! Here’s every practical use listed.

• You can eat it. Eating Rotten Flesh, however questionable, restores 4 hunger and .8 hunger saturation. But it also has an 80% chance of inflicting Hunger (effect) for 30 seconds.
• You can use it to breed, heal, and interact with tamed wolves. Using Rotten Flesh, you can lead tamed wolves around and can accelerate baby wolf growth by 10%.
• You can trade it. If you have a Cleric villager, you can trade 32 Rotten Flesh for 1 emerald. Not a bad trade, all things considered.
• You can use it to get an achievement. At least, if you’re on the PS4. This achievement is called Iron Belly, and you get it when you eat a piece of rotten flesh while starving. It’s worth 20 gamer score.

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Rotten Flesh is plentiful but things to do with it are not. But with enough meat, you can become the lord of the wolves.

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